Healthy Juicer - Manual Hand Powered Wheatgrass Juicer - Wheat grass juicer
by Lexen
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Product Summary
Manufacturer: LexenBrand: Lexen
Model: GP27
Product features:
- Compact, light weight Wheatgrass Juicer - great for travel
- Patented suction base is rated at over 100lbs of force. It securely attaches to any smooth surface
- Includes operating instructions on using your healthy juicer (DVD is no longer included)
- All parts of the juicer are made of extra tough Polycarbonate (Lexan) - non-toxic FDA approved
- Manufactures Limited 1 Year Warranty
- Wheatgrass Nature's Finest: The Complete Guide to Using Grass Foods & Juices to Revitalize Your Health by Steve Meyerowitz - Revised Edition
- Wheatgrass Growing Kit W-400 by Back To Basics
Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Healthy Juicer - Manual Hand Powered Wheatgrass Juicer - Wheat grass juicer
Customer Review: Very Nice Juicer
Summary: 5 Stars
It took about 2 weeks to get here after ordering - a week before shipping and a week in transit. Now that it's here, it's a pretty nice juicer.
This is my first juicer. We decided to give this a try before investing more money in an electric juicer.
What's in the box? Suction juicer base, clear plastic hopper/body, green plastic end cap with O ring, 2 little white end caps, screw core with white plastic bushing, crank handle, plastic cup, screen for plastic cup, 2 extra O rings, 1 extra white plastic bushing, pusher for hopper (which doubles as wrench to turn suction cup knob), wrench for green plastic end cap, and clamp. I say plastic, not sure what the exact materials are, but this is fairly heavy duty stuff.
I've been juicing mostly vegetables with it, potatoes, carrots, celery, onion, and also tried a grapefruit and an orange. Works great on these. I cut up the potatoes and onion into french fry size, but carrots and celery I just feed whole. I've found that, if instead of just dropping the stuff in the hopper, if you just feed with one hand as you crank with the other it works really well. I think overall it works faster than cutting up the veggies small enough so they'll self feed. I'm sure this could cut off or crush a finger pretty easily so be careful of getting your fingers down too far. I've found if you feed the larger end of carrots or celery first you can just let go when you get to the smaller end and they'll self feed.
I made the mistake the first time of having the cup underneath where the pulp comes out. If you call the side with the suction cup knob the front, the proper place to put the cup is in the back with the protruding part sticking under the crank handle side. That's where the juice comes out. You need your own bowl to catch the pulp that comes out the other end.
The pulp comes out pretty much juiced out. I'm pretty impressed by how well it gets the juice out. I tried putting the pulp back through to see if I could get more juice out. I thought this was working but have since concluded that the pulp was acting almost like a sponge soaking up the juice that had already been extracted and was on its way to drip out and the re-pulp was not adding any more juice. Also re-pulping was very messy and made clean-up harder.
The screen does a great job to make your juice pulp free if you want it that way, but you have to let gravity do the work. If you push down on the slush you'll end up pushing pulp through the screen. Of course if you don't mind pulp you can leave the screen off. (Here, of course, I'm talking about tiny little pulp that comes out with the juice, not the major juiced out pulp that comes out the other end.)
Clean-up is pretty easy (when you don't make a mess re-pulping). Rinse out the screen and cup. You have to stuff a napkin where the juice comes out because another few drops come will inevitably come out when the cup isn't there. Remove and rinse off the little white nozzle. Remove and rinse off the green end cap (don't lose the O ring). Remove and rinse off the screw core. There is a removable bushing on the screw core (on the handle end). Stuff gets under there so take it off the screw core and rinse. Rinse out the hopper unit. (You need to unlock the suction cup for the hopper to slide out.) Carrot juice does seem to stain the screw core and the white tips a bit, but I don't think that's anything to worry about.
I've only used the suction cup so far. I did yank it off the counter the second time I used it when it was hard to turn, but I've since learned not to feed it with too much at a time. I just let it cut off a little to feed through at a time. (That is the screw will cut what your feeding into it off in just the right amount.) Also, when I'm pulling up on the handle and it is harder to pull I will hold down the unit to be sure.
Overall it's a nice product and I highly recommend.
ps I thought I should try something soft since this says it's a wheatgrass juicer. The closest thing I have to wheatgrass I figure is spinach. I ended up putting a good handful through, but no juice! I send a carrot through after and the juice that comes out is green. Not sure how much is spinach juice.
I notice that there is some play in the fit of the screw core. It has room to move from front to back. I cut a plastic washer out of a plastic milk jug and put that between the bushing and the screw core. It's a really nice fit now. I try the spinach again. Still no juice. (There's a juice slush in the screw core area, but no juice is flowing out.) Maybe spinach has no fiber to squeeze like wheatgrass does. I have some lettuce to try. Hey, the lettuce actually juices!
I don't know if any conclusion can be made from this how wheatgrass will do, but the milk jug washer is a very good improvement.
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Description of Healthy Juicer - Manual Hand Powered Wheatgrass Juicer - Wheat grass juicer
Healthy Juicer, the affordable manual wheatgrass juicer Features & Specifications The Healthy Juicer is the easiest, most efficient and most affordable manual wheatgrass juicer available Most people know about the extensive health benefits of juicing, but nobody enjoys the process of setting up the juicer and worst of all, cleaning up afterwards. The Healthy Juicer is rugged, efficient, and best of all, easy to use and clean! Designed to handle leafy greens There are two types of juicers on the market today. Centrifugal and masticating (meaning to crush and squeeze). The main benefit of a masticating juicer is that it crushes the fruits and vegetables as opposed to shredding them as your average centrifugal juicer does. This process of crushing and squeezing extracts more juice and also has less heat build up than from the high speed at which centrifugal juicers work, which destroys the enzymes and other vital nutrients. The Healthy Juicer produces a healthier juice! Have you ever tried to juice leafy vegetables such as parsley, spinach or even cabbage in a centrifugal juicer? A good portion of it is wasted and just passes through as these juicers do not have any crushing ability. Vegetables are expensive today, especially organic ones. Why throw your money away by not extracting as much juice and nutrients as possible from them? The specially designedManual Juicers
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